Can anyone point me to what my options are to get a backup image? Would appreciate any info on how to get an image ??

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If you already have InstantCake with the appropriate image, you can follow the directions in this link to copy the image to a flashdrive, boot MFSTools, and burn the image to a drive connected via a USB to IDE/SATA cable. I've done it using a laptop when IC could not recognize my DVD drive.

If you already have InstantCake with the appropriate image, you can follow the directions in this link to copy the image to a flashdrive, boot MFSTools, and burn the image to a drive connected via a USB to IDE/SATA cable. I've done it using a laptop when IC could not recognize my DVD drive.

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Nice, I'll give that a try.

Btw, DvrUpgrade support said it couldn't be done:

<support@dvrupgrade.com> wrote:
Nope - you really need an old PC for that product.

> Hey guys--
> I was considering buying your InstantCake installer since my Tivo HD died.
>
> I was wondering if it's possible to install without an old PC? I have an
> IDE-to-USB cable and was hoping there was a simpler installation?
>
> Please let me know what options are available!

MFSLive Tools + IC image worked as expected. Is there any warehousing on the Forums in case anyone else needs it?

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Even if you could store that image on this site, it (Instant Cake) is a licensed commercial product (from a TCF sponsor, no less), so it would be improper and probably copyright infringement for you to make a copy of the Instant Cake cd .iso available.

Open an account at dropbox, and if you happen to have a working TiVo in the house, pull the drive, use the MFS Live cd v1.4 from mfslive.org (not the IC cd) to make a truncated image, give the file a .bak extension.

Use WinMFS, also from mfslive.org, to make a truncated image, but this one gets a .tbk extension--WinMFS does that by default.

Then upload both to your dropbox account.

If anyone comes along looking for an image for that particular model, send them the dropbox links.

Backing up with both programs doubles the chances of having the right version on hand no matter which program the "beg-ee" wishes to use to do the restoration.